Lake Mary Board To Study Pay Raises

April 11, 1985|By Laura Santos of The Sentinel Staff

LAKE MARY — City commissioners tonight will review a recommendation by the personnel committee that the city raise the salaries of most city employees. The committee recommended large salary increases for most positions after reviewing the pay scales of six other Seminole County cities. The cities reviewed were Oviedo, Winter Springs, Longwood, Casselberry, Sanford and Altamonte Springs.

''We are slipping fast,'' said Commissioner Russ Megonegal, who headed the committee. ''By the time we finish training employees, they leave for greener pastures.''

Under the recommendation, the biggest raises would go to the city manager, city treasurer and police chief.

Kathy Rice, city manager, is paid $21,449 a year, about $13,000 less than the $34,500 Winter Springs pays its city manager and less than half the $51,858 paid the Altamonte Springs city manager. The committee is recommending that her salary be increased to $31,812.

Salary for the police chief would jump from $22,755 to $31,812 and the city treasurer's from $18,530 to $24,143. The starting salary for a police officer would go from $12,717 a year to $14,952.

''We took the salaries paid by the different cities and came up with an average,'' Megonegal said.

He said the new pay scale, if adopted, would make Lake Mary competitive in the job market.

The cost of implementing the program would be about $35,000 for this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. If approved, the money would come from a reserve fund. The commission will hold today's work session at 7:30 p.m.